Picasso96 driver question

[biggun]

Hi,

I have an RTG card which is not (yet) supported by CyberGFX and Picasso96.
I would like to create the Picasso "card" file for it to enable support for it.

Can someone give me a hint where to find documentation / the sources for an existing card files?

Many thanks in advance!

[Thomas]

Both software products are closed-source. You should try to contact the copyright owners and hope for a lot good will.

From what I've heard the P96 authors are rather pissed off because everybody was using their software but nobody did pay the registration fee.

For CGX you could perhaps check the AROS sources for information.

[biggun]

Thanks Thomas for the quick reply.

Hmm maybe there is alo information in UAE...
UAE does provide an P96.device doesn't it?

I assume that the authors of either RTG driver might have created example drivers for RTG card to enable hardware manufacturers to support teir RTG standard..

Is this how I assumed it?

[slaapliedje]

I always thought the RTG system was something that Commodore had thought of, but never really developed upon.

And as far as paying for registration of Picasso96, wasn't part of the license originally included in the old hardware purchases?  (Sure UAE and Mediator type devices... not sure if Elbox paid them or not).

The whole driver situation under the Amiga is kind of odd.  On the one hand you have people like Nova Coder who is completely epic in what he's doing, and does it for fun, not expecting any sort of financial gain (at least that I know of!).  Then you have companies like Elbox that get pissed off that someone was copying the code for a driver that is unique in getting Radeon cards working with the Mediator (so regardless of where the driver comes from, you still have to buy the hardware...)  

I remember way back when, a friend of mine didn't have the means to order it, so I ended up ordering a full copy of MUI / MagicWB.  I didn't even have an Amiga at the time, and he no longer uses his.  Fortunately I held onto my copy and still have it to this day.  

If indeed the P96 people were pissed that no one paid for it, that was a long time ago, and it'd be nice if a group could create an open source alternative, like the AROS group?

slaapliedje